Uses records, letters, internal memos, and personal documents to provide a biography of the man who transformed the small Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company into the international giant IBM.

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Explores how three business tycoons are having a revolutionary impact on Las Vegas and its surrounding areas, profiling each for their backgrounds, financial prowess, and goals while making predictions about how they are reshaping the city. 60,000 first printing.

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How the West's greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war—and the steep price he paid for failingJim Thompson landed in Thailand at the end of World War II, a former American society dilettante who became an Asian legend as a spy and silk magnate with access to Thai worlds outsiders never saw. As the Cold War reached Thailand, America had a choice: Should it, as Thompson believed, help other nations build democracies from their traditional cultures or, as his ex-OSS friend Willis Bird argued, remake the world through deception and self-serving alliances? In a story rich with insights and intrigue, this book explores a key Cold War episode that is still playing out today.Highlights a pivotal moment in Cold War history that set a course for American foreign policy that is still being followed todayExplores the dynamics that put Thailand at the center of the Cold War and the fighting in neighboring Laos that escalated from sideshow to the largest covert operation America had ever engaged inDraws on personal recollections and includes atmospheric details that bring the people, events—and the Thailand of the time—to lifeWritten by a journalist with extensive experience in Asian affairs who has spent years investigating every aspect of this story, including Thompson's tragic disappearance

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Both authoritative and specific to unique real estate practices of Texas, this covers everything needed to master knowledge of Texas real estate. From brokerage, appraisal, financing, contract, closing and investments, the core-topics of real estate are thoroughly covered. Users will also learn about land descriptions, rights and interests, fair housing, taxes, leases, condominiums, zoning, licensing and the use of computers in real estate. Included throughout the book are numerous examples from the actual practice of real estate in Texas.

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